As I Lay Dying

Why does Dylan Thomas look at me

as I go gentle into that goodnight?

Why does Robert Lowell run out of juice

every manic Monday?

Why did Sylvia leave a note on the refrigerator,

“Too cold to die in here.”

Why did Allen Ginsberg come to Texas

and waste his New York minute?

Drunk as hell, Ann Sexton

died in a garage in Weston.